Love to share all the cool things happening in Burnside Park—home of Kidoinfo Storytime / Art in the Park and Kidoinfo Play in the Park—this Saturday as part of the mega 2016 PVDFest!

The Downtown Providence Parks Conservancy, in conjunction with Providence Art Culture Tourism & FirstWorks, invites you to Burnside Park during PVD Fest for a celebration of local arts, culture and play designed to entertain and engage all ages. Enjoy performances, participate in activities, and interact with artists from around our creative RI community.

Performances include family-friendly theatre, puppets, storytelling, music and dance – featuring an open drum circle, a Chinese Lion Dance parade, a Camper Spotlight from Girls Rock! Rhode Island, and so much more!

All of our events are FREE, family friendly, and open to the public. Check out the schedule below and please note that times may change and many activities happen simultaneously, so follow us on Twitter and Facebook to stay up to date on any changes that may occur.

PERFORMANCES12:30 – Miss Katie, founder of playSCIENCE (and a Play in the Park partner this July + August!) will be performing, making instruments with kids and leading a musical parade around the park.

1:00 – The Ricky Rainbow Beard Show with Dr. Sound will put on its first live performance, a celebration of color and sound that involves a lot of audience participation.1:30 – Valerie Tutson, a regular at our KidoInfo Storytime, will tell stories and perform songs drawn from African traditions.

1-4pm – Remix Mural: local artist Scott Laphampresents The Live Interactive Remix Mural, where festival goers create human sized portraits collaged together from hundreds of photographs taken of people in downtown Providence.

1-4pm – Miss Katie from playSCIENCE will work with kids to build their own musical instruments to play in a parade around the park!

2-5pm –Imagination Play Project will be taking place with play curator Linda White. People of all ages can create interactive sculptures using found objects and colorful sculptural materials.

12-6pm – Story Rooms from our Art in the Park Program will also be open. Step into life-sized pages from some of your favorite stories, like Where the Wild Things Are, Goodnight Moon, and Oh, The Places You’ll Go! Sit under the shade of Truffula Trees. Meet our Moon Man!

12-6pm – Our Open Air Reading Room with books featured at the past 5 years of Kidoinfo Storytime will also be open for those who’d like a little down time.

Check out our Facebook event page for details and updates. Please note that times may change. Will you be in the park? Tag your photos with #BurnsidePark !!

Anisa Raoof is the publisher of Kidoinfo.com. She combines being a mom with her experience as an artist, designer, psych researcher and former co-director of the Providence Craft Show to create the go-to spot for families in Rhode Island and beyond. She loves using social media to connect parents with family-related businesses and services and promoting ways for parents to engage offline with their kids.
Anisa believes in the power of working together and loves to find ways to collaborate with others. An online enthusiast, still likes to unplug often by reading books and magazines, drawing, learning to knit, making pop-up books with her two sons and listening to records with her husband.